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Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from clonal complex 398 with no livestock association in Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Sept 2017
André Egidio Domingos, Pereira Renata Freire Alves, Snyder Robert Eugene, Machado Thamiris Santana, André Lialyz Soares Pereira, Cardoso Claudete Aparecida Araújo, Aguiar-Alves Fábio
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CC398 is a livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus. However, it has also been isolated from humans with no previous contact with livestock. A surveillance of methicillin-resistant S. aureus colonisation among children attending public day care centres and hospitals in Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2011 and 2013, resulted in the isolation of six cases of CC398 from individuals with no previous...
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